The Kennedy Center Honors Local New Jersey Student Playwrights
The Kennedy Center has just announced the winners in its annual VSA Playwright Discovery Competition and four of the twelve winners are students involved in Writers Theatre's New Jersey Writers Project programs! Alessandra Sommers and Colin McKenna, the winners of the Junior Division (grades 8-9), are students at the Union Academy for Performing Arts in Elizabeth and The Craig School in Mountain Lakes, respectively. Elijah Gaines and Jaleel Lindsay, winners in the Senior Division (grades 10-12), were students at the Green Residential Community Home in Ringwood. McKenna, Gaines, and Lindsay were all mentored by Writers Theatre teaching artist, Dominique Cieri, while Sommers was mentored by another Writers Theatre teaching artist, Carolyn Hunt. Carolyn's work at Union Academy for the Performing Arts is part of a long-time collaboration between WTNJ and the school, providing a playwriting class to ninth-graders taught by a professional playwright.
26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival Set for Today
Playwrights Theatre announces the 26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival will be held on Saturday, March 17 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. The Madison Young Playwrights Festival brings to life the work of young playwrights who completed a play as part of a 10-week playwriting program conducted by Playwrights Theatre in the Central Avenue School, Kings Road School, Torey J. Sabatini School, Madison Junior School and St. Vincent Martyr School. Five plays were chosen and these plays will be presented with professional actors.
26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival To Be Held on March 17
Playwrights Theatre announces the 26th Annual Madison Young Playwrights Festival will be held on Saturday, March 17 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. The Madison Young Playwrights Festival brings to life the work of young playwrights who completed a play as part of a 10-week playwriting program conducted by Playwrights Theatre in the Central Avenue School, Kings Road School, Torey J. Sabatini School, Madison Junior School and St. Vincent Martyr School. Five plays were chosen and these plays will be presented with professional actors.
